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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「凶終隙末」, with more below.

Discover the idiom 「凶終隙末」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Evil: murder; gap: suspicion, hatred; end, end: finally, result. It means that friendship between two people cannot always be maintained and friends become enemies.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiōng zhōng xì mò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hung1 jung1 kwik1/gwik1 mut6

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